原创2：dell sc1425老服务器安装vmware虚拟机esxi 5.0－更新BIOSfirmware

1.BIOS更新

主板BIOS目前为A01

共4个版本

A03, A03发布日期： 2006/3/9 8:32:14 A02, A02

发布日期： 2005/8/6 8:32:14
A01, A01发布日期： 2005/2/14 10:53:51
A00, A00发布日期： 2004/11/29 13:09:26
更新内容：

A03

* Fixed the Unreported I/O failure in HCT 12.1 with WS03 SP1

* Fixed the system booting security issue in the BIOS Setup

* Fixed slow download of WinPE ISO via RIS when USB keyboard/mouse is attached

* Added the ATA hard disk Security Freeze feature

* Added new BMC Mux mode

* Added Native IPMI support

* Added progress indicator for BIOS Flash Utility

* Modified the SMBIOS table entry type 4 for handling Dual-Core Processors

* Modified the code to not check SATA device type in order to avoid the device type error message

A02

*********************************************************** * IMPORTANT NOTES ***********************************************************

* Update RHEL4 ATI Radeon 7000m driver to the latest

* version available on the Dell website before flashing * this BIOS.

***********************************************************

Changes from A01:

* Updated Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Processor with 800MHz System Bus D0 Stepping Microcode (Patch ID=17).

* Updated Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Processor with 800MHz System Bus E0 Stepping Microcode (Patch ID=17).

* Added Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Processor with 800MHz System Bus G1 Stepping Microcode (Patch ID=03).

* Updated Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Processor with 2MB L2 Cache N0 Stepping Microcode (Patch ID=05).

* Added Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Processor with 2MB L2 Cache R0 Stepping Microcode (Patch ID=02).

* Updated ATI RADEON 7000 BIOS to version yi13530a. * Update PXE UNDI code to version 1.2.26.

* Added additional DIMM SPD date-code information to SMBIOS for unique DIMM identifier.

* Improved PCI Memory Allocation.

* Fixed issue of incomplete MPTable with multi-function PCI-to-PCI adapter.

* Fixed Processor TCtrl value for BMC not getting updated for single logical processor configuration.

* Fixed issue of "Reboot to Utility Partition" does not work in ATA mode when DSA V2.5 is used.

* Fixed issue of BIOS does not read baud rate from BMC when using Option 4 via SOL Proxy.

* Enhanced correctable memory error reporting algorithm.

更新方法：

步骤一.制作一个USB启动到dos的usb启动盘

方法如下：http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd-on-usb-disk

Step 1[/u]
Connect USB Pen Drive (1GB or more)

Step 2[/u]
Download and Run USB Disk Storage Format

USBFormat.zip (34KB)



Step 3[/u]
Download grubinst_gui

grub4dos.zip (179KB) and Run as Administrator



Step 4[/u]
Insert the BootCD (10.3 or newer) in the CD Drive and Copy everything from CD to USB Flash Drive

Step 5[/u]
Copy grldr and menu.lst from grub4dos.zip (or from HBCD folder) to the usb drive



Step 6[/u]

Test Your USB Drive (read bottom of the page for troubleshoot)

步骤 二：

下载最新的BIOS A3,PE1425-A03.exe文件

拷贝该文件到刚才制作的U盘上

步骤三：

设置BIOS为USB启动

插入U盘启动到dos,运行PE1425-A03.exe更新系统